Increasingly forward-thinking organizations are recognizing the value and impact women leaders contribute to business, families and our communities. So much so that many are formalizing strategies and programs tailor-made to addressing the unique challenges facing women in the workplace as core components of both acquisition and retention strategies.

Studies have shown that women bring a special brand of leadership to organizations—one that translates into superior financial performance and long-term sustainability. Women also represent a valuable and under-tapped talent pool, now comprising the majority of university graduates responsible for nearly 85 percent of purchase decisions, and under-represented in mid and senior management positions.

I would like to announce that we will be having our fourth Scrum Bangalore User Group event on the 19 February’2011 at the Ramada Hotel. I would like the participation of all the group members of Scrum Bangalore to make this event a success and a fun filled one. We will have advanced talks on distributed scrum development and agile games to find and solve issues in dysfunctional teams.Please go ahead and RSVP yourself. Please find the details of the 4th Scrum Bangalore Meetup Event: Participation: Free of Cost Venue: Ramada Hotel, Bangalore, Map- http://www.ramadabang&#8230;.

Rini van Solingen is appointed as a professor on the subject of Globally Distributed Software Engineering at Delft University of Technology,Netherlands. Furthermore, Rini is Chief Technology Officer at iSense Prowareness.Rini is an expert in industrial product-, process and performance improvement of software and systems development. Especially in contexts with (globally) distributed development teams. He is also the author of the book ” The Power of Scrum” one of the most successful Agile books of our times.

I would like to thank Rini van Solingen for flying down from the Netherlands to speak at our meetup.